The Pulpit Commentary on Amos 8:13

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This verse is parallel to the preceding. The thirst, spiritual and physical, shall affect the fair virgins and young men—those in all the freshness, beauty, and vigour of youth. Shall faint; literally, shall be veiled, covered, expressive of the feeling of faintness, when the sight grows dim and a mantle of darkness drops over one (Jonah 4:8).

If the strongest thus fail, much more will the rest succumb to the threatened calamity.

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